EP4324089A1 - Method and apparatus to drive coils of a multiphase electric machine - Google Patents
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- the present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatus to drive coils or windings of multiphase electric machines (e.g., electric motor, an induction motor, generator), and in particular to methods and apparatus employing coil driver modulation techniques.
- multiphase electric machines e.g., electric motor, an induction motor, generator
- Voltage source inverters utilize an energy storage element on a DC link to provide a fixed, low AC impedance, DC voltage to the switching elements.
- the storage element is generally a capacitor, but can also be other types of storage elements, for example voltage sources, for instance a primary or secondary chemical battery (e.g., a lithium ion battery), or the like.
- the DC voltage is then applied to a load via switches to generate the desired output voltage via variable ON time, fixed frequency, i.e. , duty cycle, or less typically a combination of variable ON time and variable frequency.
- the switches are generally semiconductor switches (e.g ., Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs), Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs)).
- MOSFETs Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistors
- IGBTs Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors
- PWM Pulse Width Modulation
- a microcontroller with specifically designed timer/counter blocks.
- the main principle of PWM technique is that through ON/OFF control on the switches (e.g., semiconductor switches), a series of pulses with the same amplitude and different width are generated on an output port to replace the sinusoidal wave or other waveforms typically used.
- the duty cycle of the output waveform needs to be modulated by a certain rule and as a result both the output voltage and output frequency of the inverter can be regulated.
- center aligned PWM where all the pulses for the various phases (e.g., three phases) use the same “timer top”.
- edge aligned PWM where all of the phases (e.g., three phases) share the leading edge, but turn OFF at different times to generate the desired average voltage per phase.
- Fig. 3 illustrates a center aligned 3 phase PWM pattern.
- the three phases (phase A, phase B, and phase C) are all centered on a timer center.
- Each of the three phases shares an ON state and an Off state.
- Each of the phases has a different duty cycle, but each is centered on the timer center as shown.
- the pulse center is fixed in the center of a time window and both edges of each pulse moves to compress or expand the width of the corresponding pulse.
- the PWM drive scheme described herein in conjunction with an inverter topology comprising a pair of half bridges (H bridges) and a series switch can advantageously provide a large reduction in RMS ripple current stress on the DC storage element.
- the described motor drive topology where there is essentially no PWM or voltage interaction between phases, makes it possible to change the PWM pattern(s) to reduce the ripple current stress on the storage element.
- modulator angle refers to an angle of a saw tooth carrier generating the PWM for each H bridge.
- This saw tooth carrier can be an analog voltage used to compare against the demand by a comparator, or a waveform generated by count up/down timers and counter compare.
- the disclosed coil driver utilizing the disclosed modulation method has much lower ripple current, peak-to-peak current, and raises the order of the harmonic content. This greatly simplifies capacitor and EMI filter design and reduces their size/weight.
- an apparatus may be summarized as a coil driver for each phase of a multi-phase electric machine that comprises: a DC energy store coupled between ports of the coil driver; a first switch pair, the first switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a first node between the at least two switch elements; a second switch pair, the second switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a second node between the at least two switch elements, wherein a first AC drive current or AC voltage for a first coil is generated between the first node and the second node; a third switch pair, the third switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a third node between the at least two switch elements; a fourth switch pair, the fourth switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a fourth node between the at least two switch elements, wherein a second AC drive current or AC voltage for a second coil is generated between the first node
- an angle of a modulator carrier varies to drive each phase of a pulse width modulated pattern.
- the angle of the modulator carrier varies for each phase by one of +/- 120 degrees and +/- 60 degrees.
- two H bridges drive identical current.
- two identical currents are interleaved.
- a modulator carrier in the second mode varies to drive each phase with a carrier angle offset between at least 60° and 120°.
- Figure 1 A is a schematic diagram of a system including an electric machine and a controller.
- Figure 1 B is a schematic diagram showing a single phase coil driver, according to at least one illustrated implementation.
- Figure 2 is a graph showing a respective current for each phase of a 3-phase system.
- Figure 3 is a graph illustrating a center aligned PWM approach.
- Figure 4 is a graph illustrating a center aligned 3-phase PWM pattern.
- Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of a delta connection of a 3 phase equivalent load.
- Figure 6 is a graph illustrating a phase current/coil current.
- Figure 7 is a graph illustrating ripple current stress on a DC link.
- Figure 8 is a graph illustrating a spectrum of a ripple current in a DC link.
- Figure 9 is a graph illustrating carriers and generated PWM signals.
- Figure 10 is a graph illustrating an impact of carrier angle on ripple current.
- Figure 11 is a graph illustrating DC link ripple in series mode of operation.
- Figure 12 is a graph illustrating ripple current spectrum of the DC link ripple in the series mode of operation.
- Figure 13 is a graph showing an effect on DC link ripple when varying carrier angle between H bridges for each phase in a parallel voltage equivalent mode of operation.
- Figure 14 is a graph showing an impact of a 120° offset and interleaving of H bridge pairs for a given phase.
- Figure 15 is a graph illustrating coil currents.
- Figure 16 is a graph illustrating DC link currents when operating in the parallel voltage equivalent mode of operation.
- Figure 17 is a graph illustrating a harmonic content of the DC ripple current during the parallel voltage equivalent mode of operation.
- Figure 1A shows a system 100 including an electric machine 110 (e.g., electric motor, induction motor, generator) and control subsystem 120, according to at least one illustrated implementation.
- an electric machine 110 e.g., electric motor, induction motor, generator
- control subsystem 120 e.g., a system 100 including an electric machine 110 (e.g., electric motor, induction motor, generator) and control subsystem 120, according to at least one illustrated implementation.
- the electric machine 100 can take the form a multiphase electric machine, for instance a three phase electric motor (e.g., three phase permanent magnet (PM) motor), induction motor, or the like.
- the electric machine 100 can, for example, include a rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets arrayed thereabout, and a stator with a plurality of coils or windings arrayed thereabout.
- the rotor is mounted to rotate with respect to the stator, for instance in response to selective excitation of magnetic fields in the coils or windings.
- the control system 120 is coupled to control the electric machine by one or more control lines 130, for example via operation of various switches to control the selective excitation of magnetic fields in the coils or windings, as described in detail herein.
- the control system 120 can include one or more processors (e.g., microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable logic units (PLUs), motor controllers, or other control circuits.
- processors e.g., microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable logic units (PLUs), motor controllers, or other control circuits.
- the control system can include one or more nontransitory storage media, for example memory (e.g., read only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), FLASH memory) or other media (e.g., magnetic disk drive, optical disk drive), which stores processor-executable instructions, which when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to execute logic to control operation of the electric machine, for instance as described herein.
- the control system can include one or more sensors 140 or receive information from one or more sensors 140, for example one or more current sensors, voltage sensors, position or rotary encoders, Hall effect sensors, or Reed switches, which allow the operation of the electric machine and control circuitry to be monitored.
- Figure 1 B is a schematic diagram of a circuit 200 for a single phase of an electric machine (e.g., electric motor), according to at least one illustrated implementation.
- Each phase of the electric machine has two or more coils or distinct portions or segments of a coil or winding for the phase of the electric machine, denominated in Figure 1 B as L1 and L2.
- the circuit 200 is sometimes referred to herein and in the claims as a single phase coil driver or simply referred to as a coil driver even though the illustrated circuit 200 includes the coils, windings, or portions or segments of the coils or windings.
- a multiphase electric machine e.g., three phase permanent magnet (PM) motor
- PM permanent magnet
- L1 and L2 represent motor coils for the single phase and C1 is the DC link energy storage element.
- Switches S 1 , S2, S3, S4, S6, S7, S8, and S9 function as PWM switches for the inverter and S5 is a series switch. Typically the switches would be comprised of one or more semiconductor devices, for example silicon or silicon carbide MOSFET, IGBT etc.
- a controller 210 is coupled to the switches by one or more control lines CL1-CL4 and drives the switches.
- the controller 210 can be a microcontroller or the like.
- the coil driver depicted in Fig. 1B has two operating modes a series mode and a parallel mode.
- S5 is ON, S3, S4, S6, and S7 are OFF” and S 1 , S2, S8, and S9 are in “PWM” mode forming an active “H bridge” driving the series connected coil.
- S5 is “OFF” and S1 to 4 and S6 to S9 are in “PWM” mode, which creates two H bridges driving L1 and L2 as individual coils.
- parallel mode the coil pairs are individually driven by their own H bridge, resulting in 2 H bridges per phase.
- the coil driver for each phase of a multiphase electric machine shown in Fig. 1 B includes a DC energy store C1 coupled between ports B+ and B- of the coil driver and four switch pairs and a series switch.
- a first switch pair has at least two switch elements S1 , S2 connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a first node between the at least two switch elements S1 , S2.
- a second switch pair having at least two switch elements S3, S4 connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a second node between the at least two switch elements S3, S4.
- a first AC drive current or AC voltage for a first coil L1 is generated between the first node and the second node.
- a third switch pair is connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a third node between the at least two switch elements S6, S7.
- a fourth switch pair having at least two switch elements S8, S9 connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a fourth node between the at least two switch elements.
- a second AC drive current or AC voltage for a second coil L2 is generated between the third node and the fourth node.
- a fifth switch S5 is connected in series between the second node and the third node.
- Each of the two operating modes are distinct and offer different opportunities for ripple current reduction.
- Fig. 2 shows a current for each phase of a 3-phase system.
- the currents in Fig. 2 are balanced.
- One aspect of the proposed modulation method utilizes the property of the three phase quantities to adjust the PWM such that a maximum current cancelation occurs.
- One aspect of the invention is to reduce capacitor size.
- One factor that affects capacitor sizing is frequency. Accordingly, the modulation method would drive the current harmonics up in frequency, which has the effect of reducing capacitance requirements and simplifying EMI filter requirements.
- Figs. 3 and 4 show a center aligned PWM.
- the center aligned PWM forces all the ON” times to overlap with each of the phases having a respective duty cycle variation.
- a baseline condition is a 3-phase inverter delivering the same coil current at the same modulation index, with the same coil impedance. Since the coil driver applies full DC link to the coils, the best comparison is a 3 phase drive with a delta connected load. This way the coil or delta leg currents are the same and the coils each have the same inductance/resistance. Since the coil driver can drive two coils, either in series or parallel, the parallel connected coils in delta for the 3 phase comparison is used to evaluate series mode ripple current.
- a series mode would put the two coils in series, resulting in an increase of the inductance and resistance by factor of 4. In the series mode, this also results in AC voltages across the coils having a frequency factor that is twice a drive modulation frequency. All other conditions are the same: DC link voltage and parasitic components (ESR/ESL), induced voltage in the machine, power factor (or current angle i.e. , id/iq).
- ESR/ESL DC link voltage and parasitic components
- induced voltage in the machine power factor
- power factor or current angle i.e. , id/iq
- the chosen operating point represents only q axis current (i.e., in phase with the induced voltage). It should be noted that the current angle in the coils will be the same, which means due to the nature of a delta connection, the current angle of the phase current will have a 30° angle with respect to coil current.
- Fig. 5 is a delta connection of the 3 phase equivalent load. As shown, the coils Vi,2, Wi,2, and Ui,2 are connected in a delta configuration. A phase current/coil current relationship is shown in Fig. 6 and a ripple current stress on the DC link is shown in Fig. 7.
- each coil has a peak current of 100A.
- two coils in parallel means that the delta leg current is 200A peak.
- a peak current stress on the DC link is +130A to -270A, or about 400A peak-to-peak.
- the peak-to-peak quantity is important because it represents a larger di/dt, which tends to generate larger overvoltages due to system inductance.
- Figure 8 shows a spectrum of ripple current in a DC link.
- the spectrum of the ripple current shown in the frequency domain, shows harmonic content dominant at 20kHz, which corresponds with 200A, then 40kHz, which corresponds with 75A, and decaying from there.
- the frequency relationship in unipolar modulation (H bridge) or common 3 phase bridge PWM methods has the following relationship linking switching frequency of the half bridge legs to the frequency applied to the load.
- One aspect of the invention provides a series mode modulation configuration.
- a unipolar modulation is utilized that drives the switches at a drive modulation frequency.
- Unipolar modulation utilizes a zero vector and produces a voltage across the load with a frequency factor of 2x.
- the AC voltages across the coils have a frequency factor that is twice the drive modulation frequency.
- This is a modulation method for 3 phase bridges. In operation, a 10kHz half bridge frequency applies 20kHz to the load.
- the coil driver In series mode for a 3-phase application, the coil driver operates as three independent H bridges. This configuration allows each phase to place the PWM signals in a manner such that ripple is reduced.
- the series mode coil driver will run twice the current density into a series connected coil, representing twice the torque production in the machine. From a performance stand point, the coil driver is delivering twice the torque of the 3-phase drive, at the expense of a reduction in base speed due to the higher number of effective turns in the machine. Further, when in series mode, the overall load characteristic changes, compared to the same coils parallel connected, the resistance and inductance increases four times, and the induced voltage two times.
- each H bridge gets its own modulator.
- Each modulator can then be adjusted so the angle of the modulator carrier moves the PWM signals relative to each other as shown in Fig. 9.
- the angles between carriers should be balanced, i.e., +/-120°.
- carrier angle shift 360/(n phases).
- the impact on RMS ripple current is shown in in Fig. 10.
- a +/- 60° offset also provides the same reduction.
- Fig. 11 shows the peak-to-peak stress is also reduced from 400A peak-to-peak to 345A peak-to- peak.
- the ripple current spectrum of the series mode modulation shown in Fig. 12 showing the effect on the frequency content of the current.
- the dominant harmonic is still at 20kHz as shown, but the amplitude is now only 83A (previously 200A), the 40kHz and 60kHz harmonics are depressed, and the next highest harmonic is at 80kHz, about 28A.
- One aspect of the invention is a parallel mode modulation configuration.
- the parallel mode builds on the series mode modulation.
- In the parallel mode modulation configuration there are two H bridges driving two coils with identical current. These currents can be interleaved to further reduce the ripple current stress.
- Each H bridge uses unipolar modulation.
- One way to generate this modulation is to use the same reference for each half bridge and provide a carrier with a 180° phase shift. In other words, one carrier is at 0° and the other carrier is at 180° for one H bridge.
- the carriers for the two half bridges are then -90° and 90° offset from the first H bridge. Subsequently, for each phase a rotation of +/- 120° is applied equally to all four modulators of that phase.
- Fig. 13 shows the effect on DC link ripple when varying carrier angle between H bridges for each phase in parallel mode when the +/-120° is removed from the series modulation and investigate the effect of only the interleaving when sweeping the interleaving angle.
- the DC link ripple current is significantly reduced and the best performance is centered on 90° offset.
- Fig 14 shows the impact of a 120° offset and interleaving of H bridge pairs. If the 120° offset used in series mode is added, there is a slight increase in DC link ripple current at 90°. Adding the 120° offset and interleaving of H bridge pairs provides two results. First, RMS ripple current is about 38A RMS, which is reduced from 160A RMS. Second, Peak-to-peak current is about 150A. It should be noted that there is a current cancelation happening in the bridges reducing the di/dt applied to the DC link caps, which reduces generated voltage due to inductance.
- Fig. 15 is a graph showing coil currents and Fig. 16 is a graph showing DC link currents.
- Combining the disclosed modulation methods reduces the DC link ripple current from 160A RMS for a conventional inverter delivering the same current, to a little under 40A RMS for the coil driver.
- the harmonic content is also quadrupled (20kHz to 80kHz) in frequency.
- the dominant harmonic current is 80kHz in contrast to 20kHz of the previous modulation method, given a bridge leg switching frequency of 10kHz. More generally the harmonic content is increased from 2 * F_PWM to 8 * F_PWM.
- the harmonic current at 80kHz along with the dramatically reduced ripple current greatly simplifies capacitor design.
- signal bearing media include, but are not limited to, the following: recordable type media such as floppy disks, hard disk drives, CD ROMs, digital tape, and computer memory.
- one aspect or “an implementation” means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the implementation is included in at least one implementation.
- the appearances of the phrases “in one implementation”, “in an implementation”, or “in one aspect” in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same implementation.
- the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more implementations.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a series mode modulation configuration and a parallel voltage equivalent modulation configuration. In the series mode modulation configuration a unipolar modulation is utilized. Unipolar modulation utilizes a zero vector and produces a voltage across the load with a frequency factor of 2x. In the parallel voltage equivalent mode modulation configuration there are two H bridges driving two coils with identical current. The H bridges can advantageously be operated out of phase with one another (e.g., 180 out of phase with one another to interleave the currents to further reduce ripple current stress.
Description
METHOD AND APPARTUS TO DRIVE COILS OF A MULTIPHASE
ELECTRIC MACHINE
Cross Reference to Related Applications The present application for patent claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/188,151 , filed May 13, 2021 , the contents of which is expressly incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Technical Field
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatus to drive coils or windings of multiphase electric machines (e.g., electric motor, an induction motor, generator), and in particular to methods and apparatus employing coil driver modulation techniques.
BACKGROUND
Description of Related Art
Voltage source inverters (VSI) utilize an energy storage element on a DC link to provide a fixed, low AC impedance, DC voltage to the switching elements. The storage element is generally a capacitor, but can also be other types of storage elements, for example voltage sources, for instance a primary or secondary chemical battery (e.g., a lithium ion battery), or the like. The DC voltage is then applied to a load via switches to generate the desired output voltage via variable ON time, fixed frequency, i.e. , duty cycle, or less typically a combination of variable ON time and variable frequency. The switches are generally
semiconductor switches ( e.g ., Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs), Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs)).
Although analog control is possible, most inverters employ a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) pattern using a microcontroller with specifically designed timer/counter blocks. The main principle of PWM technique is that through ON/OFF control on the switches (e.g., semiconductor switches), a series of pulses with the same amplitude and different width are generated on an output port to replace the sinusoidal wave or other waveforms typically used. The duty cycle of the output waveform needs to be modulated by a certain rule and as a result both the output voltage and output frequency of the inverter can be regulated.
The most common approach is called “center aligned PWM”, where all the pulses for the various phases (e.g., three phases) use the same “timer top”. Another approach is called “edge aligned PWM” where all of the phases (e.g., three phases) share the leading edge, but turn OFF at different times to generate the desired average voltage per phase.
Fig. 3 illustrates a center aligned 3 phase PWM pattern. The three phases (phase A, phase B, and phase C) are all centered on a timer center. Each of the three phases shares an ON state and an Off state. Each of the phases has a different duty cycle, but each is centered on the timer center as shown. In other words, the pulse center is fixed in the center of a time window and both edges of each pulse moves to compress or expand the width of the corresponding pulse.
Due to an interaction between the three generated line voltages in a conventional three phase inverter there is not a lot of flexibility in varying the way the duty cycles are applied to the output in order to generate the desired voltages.
The energy storage element on the DC link supplies the current, and the switches are operated at the PWM frequency to generate the desired output voltage/current. Generating the desired output voltage/current puts a large ripple current stress on the storage element. A general rule of thumb is that a DC link storage element worst case Root Mean Square (RMS) ripple current exposure is approximately 0.6x the RMS phase current. As an example, a 100A RMS per phase inverter would generate about 60A RMS ripple current in the DC link storage element.
Summary
The large RMS current requirement on a DC link storage element drives both cost and size/weight. Therefore reducing the RMS current results in a cost and size/weight reduction for motor drives.
The PWM drive scheme described herein in conjunction with an inverter topology comprising a pair of half bridges (H bridges) and a series switch can advantageously provide a large reduction in RMS ripple current stress on the DC storage element. The described motor drive topology, where there is essentially no PWM or voltage interaction between phases, makes it possible to change the PWM pattern(s) to reduce the ripple current stress on the storage element.
It should be noted that modulator angle refers to an angle of a saw tooth carrier generating the PWM for each H bridge. This saw tooth carrier can be an analog voltage used to compare against the demand by a comparator, or a waveform generated by count up/down timers and counter compare.
Compared to conventional three phase inverters, the disclosed coil driver utilizing the disclosed modulation method has much lower ripple current, peak-to-peak current, and raises the order of the harmonic content. This greatly simplifies capacitor and EMI filter design and reduces their size/weight.
According to one aspect, an apparatus may be summarized as a coil driver for each phase of a multi-phase electric machine that comprises: a DC energy store coupled between ports of the coil driver; a first switch pair, the first switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a first node between the at least two switch elements; a second switch pair, the second switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a second node between the at least two switch elements, wherein a first AC drive current or AC voltage for a first coil is generated between the first node and the second node; a third switch pair, the third switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a third node between the at least two switch elements; a fourth switch pair, the fourth switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a fourth node between the at least two switch elements, wherein a second AC drive current or AC voltage for a second coil is generated between the third node and the fourth node;
a fifth switch pair, the fifth switch pair having at least two switch elements connected in series between the second node and the third node; wherein: in a first mode the first switch pair, the fourth switch pair, and the fifth switch pair are on and the second switch pair and the third switch pair are off, in a second mode the first switch pair, the second switch pair, the third switch pair, and the fourth switch pair are on, and the fifth switch pair is off and in the first mode the first and second AC voltages have a frequency factor that is twice a drive modulation frequency of the switches.
According to one aspect, in the first mode an angle of a modulator carrier varies to drive each phase of a pulse width modulated pattern.
According to one aspect, in the first mode the angle of the modulator carrier varies for each phase by one of +/- 120 degrees and +/- 60 degrees.
According to one aspect, in the second mode two H bridges drive identical current.
According to one aspect, in the second mode two identical currents are interleaved.
According to one aspect, in the second mode a modulator carrier varies to drive each phase with a carrier angle offset between at least 60° and 120°.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
In the drawings, identical reference numbers identify similar elements or acts. The sizes and relative positions of elements in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. For example, the shapes of various elements and
angles are not necessarily drawn to scale, and some of these elements may be arbitrarily enlarged and positioned to improve drawing legibility. Further, the particular shapes of the elements as drawn, are not necessarily intended to convey any information regarding the actual shape of the particular elements, and may have been solely selected for ease of recognition in the drawings.
Figure 1 A is a schematic diagram of a system including an electric machine and a controller.
Figure 1 B is a schematic diagram showing a single phase coil driver, according to at least one illustrated implementation.
Figure 2 is a graph showing a respective current for each phase of a 3-phase system.
Figure 3 is a graph illustrating a center aligned PWM approach.
Figure 4 is a graph illustrating a center aligned 3-phase PWM pattern.
Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of a delta connection of a 3 phase equivalent load.
Figure 6 is a graph illustrating a phase current/coil current.
Figure 7 is a graph illustrating ripple current stress on a DC link.
Figure 8 is a graph illustrating a spectrum of a ripple current in a DC link.
Figure 9 is a graph illustrating carriers and generated PWM signals.
Figure 10 is a graph illustrating an impact of carrier angle on ripple current.
Figure 11 is a graph illustrating DC link ripple in series mode of operation.
Figure 12 is a graph illustrating ripple current spectrum of the DC link ripple in the series mode of operation.
Figure 13 is a graph showing an effect on DC link ripple when varying carrier angle between H bridges for each phase in a parallel voltage equivalent mode of operation.
Figure 14 is a graph showing an impact of a 120° offset and interleaving of H bridge pairs for a given phase.
Figure 15 is a graph illustrating coil currents.
Figure 16 is a graph illustrating DC link currents when operating in the parallel voltage equivalent mode of operation.
Figure 17 is a graph illustrating a harmonic content of the DC ripple current during the parallel voltage equivalent mode of operation.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
In the following description, certain specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of various disclosed embodiments. However, one skilled in the relevant art will recognize that embodiments may be practiced without one or more of these specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, etc.
Unless the context requires otherwise, throughout the specification and claims which follow, the word “comprise” and variations thereof, such as,
“comprises” and" comprising” are to be construed in an open, inclusive sense, that is, as “including, but not limited to.”
Reference throughout this specification to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. Thus, the appearances of the phrases “in one embodiment” or “in an embodiment” in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.
As used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” include plural referents unless the content clearly dictates otherwise. It should also be noted that the term “or” is generally employed in its sense including “and/or” unless the content clearly dictates otherwise.
The headings and Abstract of the Disclosure provided herein are for convenience only and do not interpret the scope or meaning of the embodiments.
Figure 1A shows a system 100 including an electric machine 110 (e.g., electric motor, induction motor, generator) and control subsystem 120, according to at least one illustrated implementation.
The electric machine 100 can take the form a multiphase electric machine, for instance a three phase electric motor (e.g., three phase permanent magnet (PM) motor), induction motor, or the like. The electric machine 100 can, for example, include a rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets arrayed
thereabout, and a stator with a plurality of coils or windings arrayed thereabout. The rotor is mounted to rotate with respect to the stator, for instance in response to selective excitation of magnetic fields in the coils or windings.
The control system 120 is coupled to control the electric machine by one or more control lines 130, for example via operation of various switches to control the selective excitation of magnetic fields in the coils or windings, as described in detail herein. The control system 120 can include one or more processors (e.g., microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable logic units (PLUs), motor controllers, or other control circuits. The control system can include one or more nontransitory storage media, for example memory (e.g., read only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), FLASH memory) or other media (e.g., magnetic disk drive, optical disk drive), which stores processor-executable instructions, which when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to execute logic to control operation of the electric machine, for instance as described herein. The control system can include one or more sensors 140 or receive information from one or more sensors 140, for example one or more current sensors, voltage sensors, position or rotary encoders, Hall effect sensors, or Reed switches, which allow the operation of the electric machine and control circuitry to be monitored.
Figure 1 B is a schematic diagram of a circuit 200 for a single phase of an electric machine (e.g., electric motor), according to at least one illustrated implementation. Each phase of the electric machine has two or more coils or distinct portions or segments of a coil or winding for the phase of the electric
machine, denominated in Figure 1 B as L1 and L2. The circuit 200 is sometimes referred to herein and in the claims as a single phase coil driver or simply referred to as a coil driver even though the illustrated circuit 200 includes the coils, windings, or portions or segments of the coils or windings. For a multiphase electric machine (e.g., three phase permanent magnet (PM) motor) there would be a respective circuit 200 for each phase of the multiphase electric machine.
In Fig. 1 B L1 and L2 represent motor coils for the single phase and C1 is the DC link energy storage element. Switches S 1 , S2, S3, S4, S6, S7, S8, and S9 function as PWM switches for the inverter and S5 is a series switch. Typically the switches would be comprised of one or more semiconductor devices, for example silicon or silicon carbide MOSFET, IGBT etc. A controller 210 is coupled to the switches by one or more control lines CL1-CL4 and drives the switches. The controller 210 can be a microcontroller or the like.
The coil driver depicted in Fig. 1B has two operating modes a series mode and a parallel mode. In the series mode, S5 is ON, S3, S4, S6, and S7 are OFF” and S 1 , S2, S8, and S9 are in “PWM” mode forming an active “H bridge” driving the series connected coil. In series mode coil pairs from each phase are switched in series and driven by one H bridge per phase. In the parallel mode S5 is “OFF” and S1 to 4 and S6 to S9 are in “PWM” mode, which creates two H bridges driving L1 and L2 as individual coils. In parallel mode the coil pairs are individually driven by their own H bridge, resulting in 2 H bridges per phase.
The coil driver for each phase of a multiphase electric machine shown in Fig. 1 B includes a DC energy store C1 coupled between ports B+ and B- of the coil driver and four switch pairs and a series switch. A first switch pair has
at least two switch elements S1 , S2 connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a first node between the at least two switch elements S1 , S2. A second switch pair having at least two switch elements S3, S4 connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a second node between the at least two switch elements S3, S4. A first AC drive current or AC voltage for a first coil L1 is generated between the first node and the second node. A third switch pair is connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a third node between the at least two switch elements S6, S7. A fourth switch pair having at least two switch elements S8, S9 connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a fourth node between the at least two switch elements. A second AC drive current or AC voltage for a second coil L2 is generated between the third node and the fourth node. A fifth switch S5 is connected in series between the second node and the third node.
There are two distinct operating modes that provide different opportunity for ripple current reduction. In a series mode coil pairs from each phase are switched in series and driven by one H bridge per phase. In a parallel mode the coil pairs are individually driven by their own H bridge, resulting in 2 H bridges per phase.
Each of the two operating modes are distinct and offer different opportunities for ripple current reduction.
To compare the effect of the presented modulation scheme the following simulations were adjusted such that the operating point for the inverter and coil driver is kept consistent. Since it is well known in the field that modulation depth, current angle, and the like have a large influence on DC link ripple current,
the load and operating voltage is adjusted to maintain these the same. It should be noted that this is only done for academic reasons, because in reality series and parallel modes allow a machine to operate over a wider range of speeds and torques resulting in widely varying operating conditions. Specifically, the operating point in series and in parallel, by definition, cannot be the same.
Fig. 2 shows a current for each phase of a 3-phase system. The currents in Fig. 2 are balanced. A mathematical property of a balanced three phase system is that quantities at any instant, for example all three currents, sum to zero. Put another way, la+lb+lc = 0 (eq. 1).
One aspect of the proposed modulation method utilizes the property of the three phase quantities to adjust the PWM such that a maximum current cancelation occurs.
One aspect of the invention is to reduce capacitor size. One factor that affects capacitor sizing is frequency. Accordingly, the modulation method would drive the current harmonics up in frequency, which has the effect of reducing capacitance requirements and simplifying EMI filter requirements.
Figs. 3 and 4 show a center aligned PWM. The center aligned PWM forces all the ON” times to overlap with each of the phases having a respective duty cycle variation. A baseline condition is a 3-phase inverter delivering the same coil current at the same modulation index, with the same coil impedance. Since the coil driver applies full DC link to the coils, the best comparison is a 3 phase drive with a delta connected load. This way the coil or delta leg currents are
the same and the coils each have the same inductance/resistance. Since the coil driver can drive two coils, either in series or parallel, the parallel connected coils in delta for the 3 phase comparison is used to evaluate series mode ripple current.
In operation, a series mode would put the two coils in series, resulting in an increase of the inductance and resistance by factor of 4. In the series mode, this also results in AC voltages across the coils having a frequency factor that is twice a drive modulation frequency. All other conditions are the same: DC link voltage and parasitic components (ESR/ESL), induced voltage in the machine, power factor (or current angle i.e. , id/iq). The chosen operating point represents only q axis current (i.e., in phase with the induced voltage). It should be noted that the current angle in the coils will be the same, which means due to the nature of a delta connection, the current angle of the phase current will have a 30° angle with respect to coil current.
Fig. 5 is a delta connection of the 3 phase equivalent load. As shown, the coils Vi,2, Wi,2, and Ui,2 are connected in a delta configuration. A phase current/coil current relationship is shown in Fig. 6 and a ripple current stress on the DC link is shown in Fig. 7.
In one example, each coil has a peak current of 100A. In other words, two coils in parallel means that the delta leg current is 200A peak. Delta Leg to phase current has a V3 relation, specifically, i * L/3 = ipeak (eq. 2)
In the given example, 200* V3= 346APk, which corresponds to 244A
RMS, which matches a calculated result.
At this operating point a 3 phase drive generates an RMS ripple stress of approximately 160 Arms. This value matches the rule of thumb for 3 phase inverter which is
RMS ripple ~ 0.6 * Iphase RMS (eq. 3)
Thus, the DC link RMS ripple is calculated as 245*0.6 = 147Arms.
Further, a peak current stress on the DC link is +130A to -270A, or about 400A peak-to-peak. The peak-to-peak quantity is important because it represents a larger di/dt, which tends to generate larger overvoltages due to system inductance.
Figure 8 shows a spectrum of ripple current in a DC link. The spectrum of the ripple current, shown in the frequency domain, shows harmonic content dominant at 20kHz, which corresponds with 200A, then 40kHz, which corresponds with 75A, and decaying from there.
The frequency relationship in unipolar modulation (H bridge) or common 3 phase bridge PWM methods has the following relationship linking switching frequency of the half bridge legs to the frequency applied to the load.
FJoad = 2*F_PWM (eq. 4)
Since the DC link storage element has to supply the combined currents from all the bridge legs, this storage element is exposed to this same frequency of 2* F_PWM.
SERIES MODE MODULATION CONFIGURATION
One aspect of the invention provides a series mode modulation configuration. For H bridges a unipolar modulation is utilized that drives the
switches at a drive modulation frequency. Unipolar modulation utilizes a zero vector and produces a voltage across the load with a frequency factor of 2x. In other words, in the series mode, the AC voltages across the coils have a frequency factor that is twice the drive modulation frequency. This is a modulation method for 3 phase bridges. In operation, a 10kHz half bridge frequency applies 20kHz to the load.
In series mode for a 3-phase application, the coil driver operates as three independent H bridges. This configuration allows each phase to place the PWM signals in a manner such that ripple is reduced.
The series mode coil driver will run twice the current density into a series connected coil, representing twice the torque production in the machine. From a performance stand point, the coil driver is delivering twice the torque of the 3-phase drive, at the expense of a reduction in base speed due to the higher number of effective turns in the machine. Further, when in series mode, the overall load characteristic changes, compared to the same coils parallel connected, the resistance and inductance increases four times, and the induced voltage two times.
In a 3-phase system, because each phase is independent, each H bridge gets its own modulator. Each modulator can then be adjusted so the angle of the modulator carrier moves the PWM signals relative to each other as shown in Fig. 9. Intuitively, because this example is a 3-phase system, the angles between carriers should be balanced, i.e., +/-120°. For an n phase system, the angles would be adjusted to represent the characteristics of that system, i.e., carrier angle shift = 360/(n phases).
As the angle of the carrier is swept from 0° to 180° the impact on RMS ripple current is shown in in Fig. 10. At 0° or 180° the system behaves like a normal 3-phase drive. It should be noted that a +/- 60° offset also provides the same reduction. In addition to the reduction in RMS current stress, Fig. 11 shows the peak-to-peak stress is also reduced from 400A peak-to-peak to 345A peak-to- peak.
The ripple current spectrum of the series mode modulation shown in Fig. 12 showing the effect on the frequency content of the current. The dominant harmonic is still at 20kHz as shown, but the amplitude is now only 83A (previously 200A), the 40kHz and 60kHz harmonics are depressed, and the next highest harmonic is at 80kHz, about 28A.
PARALLEL MODE MODULATION CONFIGURATION
One aspect of the invention is a parallel mode modulation configuration. The parallel mode builds on the series mode modulation. In the parallel mode modulation configuration there are two H bridges driving two coils with identical current. These currents can be interleaved to further reduce the ripple current stress.
Each H bridge uses unipolar modulation. One way to generate this modulation is to use the same reference for each half bridge and provide a carrier with a 180° phase shift. In other words, one carrier is at 0° and the other carrier is at 180° for one H bridge. When the second H bridge is added, the carriers for the two half bridges are then -90° and 90° offset from the first H bridge. Subsequently,
for each phase a rotation of +/- 120° is applied equally to all four modulators of that phase.
Fig. 13 shows the effect on DC link ripple when varying carrier angle between H bridges for each phase in parallel mode when the +/-120° is removed from the series modulation and investigate the effect of only the interleaving when sweeping the interleaving angle. The DC link ripple current is significantly reduced and the best performance is centered on 90° offset.
Fig 14 shows the impact of a 120° offset and interleaving of H bridge pairs. If the 120° offset used in series mode is added, there is a slight increase in DC link ripple current at 90°. Adding the 120° offset and interleaving of H bridge pairs provides two results. First, RMS ripple current is about 38A RMS, which is reduced from 160A RMS. Second, Peak-to-peak current is about 150A. It should be noted that there is a current cancelation happening in the bridges reducing the di/dt applied to the DC link caps, which reduces generated voltage due to inductance. Fig. 15 is a graph showing coil currents and Fig. 16 is a graph showing DC link currents.
When the two H bridges are combined, 90° is not the best value. As seen in Fig. 14, minimum DC link ripple current is minimized at 80° and 100°. A side effect of this asymmetric modulation angle is a significant harmonic content at 20kHz, and subharmonics on the DC link, the very slight improvement in ripple current in this case is far outweighed by the negative impact of the large harmonic and sub harmonic content. Utilizing the 90° angle completely eliminates 20kHz harmonic and pushes all the DC link current harmonics up in frequency, and
increases the dc ripple current by about 1 A RMS, or more specifically an increase of ~3%.
Combining the disclosed modulation methods reduces the DC link ripple current from 160A RMS for a conventional inverter delivering the same current, to a little under 40A RMS for the coil driver. The harmonic content is also quadrupled (20kHz to 80kHz) in frequency. The dominant harmonic current is 80kHz in contrast to 20kHz of the previous modulation method, given a bridge leg switching frequency of 10kHz. More generally the harmonic content is increased from 2*F_PWM to 8*F_PWM. The harmonic current at 80kHz along with the dramatically reduced ripple current greatly simplifies capacitor design.
In the above description, certain specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of various disclosed implementations. However, one skilled in the relevant art will recognize that implementations may be practiced without one or more of these specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, etc. In other instances, well-known structures associated with computer systems, server computers, and/or communications networks have not been shown or described in detail to avoid unnecessarily obscuring descriptions of the implementations.
The foregoing detailed description has set forth various embodiments of the devices and/or processes via the use of block diagrams, schematics, and examples. Insofar as such block diagrams, schematics, and examples contain one or more functions and/or operations, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that each function and/or operation within such block diagrams, flowcharts, or examples can be implemented, individually and/or
collectively, by a wide range of hardware, software, firmware, or virtually any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the present subject matter may be implemented via Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). However, those skilled in the art will recognize that the embodiments disclosed herein, in whole or in part, can be equivalently implemented in standard integrated circuits, as one or more computer programs running on one or more computers (e.g., as one or more programs running on one or more computer systems), as one or more programs running on one or more controllers (e.g., microcontrollers) as one or more programs running on one or more processors (e.g., microprocessors), as firmware, or as virtually any combination thereof, and that designing the circuitry and/or writing the code for the software and or firmware would be well within the skill of one of ordinary skill in the art in light of this disclosure.
In addition, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mechanisms taught herein are capable of being distributed as a program product in a variety of forms, and that an illustrative embodiment applies equally regardless of the particular type of physical signal bearing media used to actually carry out the distribution. Examples of signal bearing media include, but are not limited to, the following: recordable type media such as floppy disks, hard disk drives, CD ROMs, digital tape, and computer memory.
The various embodiments described above can be combined to provide further embodiments. Aspects of the embodiments can be modified, if necessary, to employ systems, circuits and concepts of the various patents, applications and publications identified herein to provide yet further embodiments.
Unless the context requires otherwise, throughout the specification and claims that follow, the word “comprising” is synonymous with “including,” and is inclusive or open-ended (i.e. , does not exclude additional, unrecited elements or method acts).
Reference throughout this specification to “one implementation”,
“one aspect”, or “an implementation” means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the implementation is included in at least one implementation. Thus, the appearances of the phrases “in one implementation”, “in an implementation”, or “in one aspect” in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same implementation. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more implementations.
The headings and abstract provided herein are for convenience only and do not interpret the scope or meaning of the implementations.
Thus, while there have shown and described and pointed out fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to a preferred embodiment thereof, it will be understood that various omissions and substitutions and changes in the form and details of the devices illustrated, and in their operation, may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, it is expressly intended that all combinations of those elements and/or method acts that perform substantially the same function in substantially the same way to achieve the same results are within the scope of the invention. Moreover, it should be recognized that structures and/or elements and/or method acts shown and/or described in connection with any disclosed form
or embodiment of the invention may be incorporated in any other disclosed or described or suggested form or embodiment as a general matter of design choice. It is the intention, therefore, to be limited only as indicated by the scope of the claims appended hereto.
Claims
1. A system to drive a multiphase electric machine, the multiphase electric machine having a respective plurality of coils for each phase, the system comprising a respective coil driver for each phase, each coil driver respectively comprising: a DC energy store coupled between ports of the coil driver; a first switch pair, the first switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a first node between the at least two switches; a second switch pair, the second switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a second node between the at least two switches, wherein a first AC drive current or first AC voltage for a first coil is generated between the first node and the second node; a third switch pair, the third switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a third node between the at least two switches; a fourth switch pair, the fourth switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a fourth node between the at least two switches, wherein a second AC drive current or second AC voltage for a second coil is generated between the third node and the fourth node; a fifth switch pair, the fifth switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the second node and the third node; wherein:
in a first mode, the first switch pair, the fourth switch pair, and the fifth switch pair are in an ON state and the second switch pair and the third switch pair are in an OFF state, and in a second mode the first switch pair, the second switch pair, the third switch pair, and the fourth switch pair are in an ON state, and the fifth switch pair are in an OFF state forming two H bridges , and wherein in the first mode the first and second AC voltages have a frequency factor that is twice a drive modulation frequency of the switches.
2. The coil driver of claim 1 , wherein, in the first mode, a controller varies an angle of a modulator carrier to drive each phase of a pulse width modulated pattern.
3. The coil driver of claim 2, wherein in the first mode, the controller varies the angle of the modulator carrier for each phase by one of +/- 120 degrees and +/- 60 degrees.
4. The coil driver of claim 1 , wherein a controller drives the switches in the first mode such that a number of harmonics between 20kHz and 80kHz each have a lower amplitude than a number of harmonics at 20kHz and 80kHz.
5. The coil driver of claim 1 , wherein in the second mode the two H bridges drive identical currents.
6. The coil driver of claim 5, wherein in the second mode the two identical currents are interleaved.
7. The coil driver of claim 5, wherein in the second mode a controller varies a modulator carrier to drive each coil with a carrier angle offset between at least one of:
60° and 120°, and 80° and 100°.
8. The coil driver of claim 5, wherein in the second mode a controller varies a modulator carrier to drive each phase with a 90° carrier angle offset.
9. The coil driver of claim 8, wherein in the second mode a control circuit drives the switches such that a 20kHz harmonic is eliminated.
10. The coil driver of claim 7, wherein a control circuit drives the switches such that a dominant harmonic is at 80Khz.
11. The coil driver of claim 8, wherein in the second mode a control circuit drives the switches such that a 2*F_PWM harmonic is eliminated.
12. The coil driver of claim 7, wherein a control circuit drives the switches such that a dominant harmonic is at 8*F PWM.
13. The coil driver of claim 1 , wherein the multiphase electric machine is an induction motor.
14. A method to drive a multiphase electric machine, the multiphase electric machine having a respective plurality of coils for each phase, the system comprising a respective coil driver for each phase, each coil driver respectively comprising at least a first switch pair, the first switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between ports of the coil drive and having a first node between the at least two switches; a second switch pair, the second switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a second node between the at least two switches, wherein a first AC drive current or first AC voltage for a first coil is generated between the first node and the second node; a third switch pair, the third switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a third node between the at least two switches; a fourth switch pair, the fourth switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the ports of the coil drive and having a fourth node between the at least two switches, wherein a second AC drive current or second AC voltage for a second coil is generated between the third node and the fourth node; a fifth switch pair, the fifth switch pair having at least two switches connected in series between the second node and the third node, the method comprising: switching the first switch pair, the fourth switch pair, and the fifth switch pair into an ON state and the second switch pair and the third switch pair into an OFF state in a first mode; and
switching the first switch pair, the second switch pair, the third switch pair, and the fourth switch pair into an ON state, and the fifth switch pair into an OFF state forming two H bridges in a second mode, wherein in the first mode the first and second AC voltages have a frequency factor that is twice a drive modulation of the switches.
15. A method of operation of a system to drive a multiphase electric machine, the multiphase electric machine having a respective plurality of coils for each phase, the system comprising a respective coil driver for each phase, for each phase of a multiphase electric machine the method comprising: switching the respective coil driver for each phase of the multiphase electric machine to drive the respective coils for the phase of the multiphase electric machine in one of a series mode and a parallel mode, wherein, the series mode comprises: driving a respective plurality of coils for each phase; and wherein the parallel comprises: driving each the plurality of coils for each phase with an identical current by a respective H bridge circuit, wherein in the first mode the first and second AC voltages have a frequency factor that is twice a drive modulation of the switches.
16. The coil driver modulation method of claim 15, wherein in the series mode, the method further comprising: driving each phase by signals that are shifted by one of +/- 120 degrees and +/- 60 degrees.
17. The coil driver modulation method of claim 15, wherein in the parallel mode, the method further comprising: driving each phase with a carrier having an angle offset between at least one of: 60° and 120°, and an additional 90° between modulators of each H bridge pair of each respective phase.
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